"Nobody, I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. Oh, farewell!" V.ii.122-123.I love those awkward moments when someone is on their death bed because you murdered them and then they still stand up for you after everything you have done for them... not. Not only was this line uncomfortable to read, but as I expressed today in class, very unrealistic.
I will now do my best to psycho-analyze what was going through Desdemona's head in an attempt to answer the final question in the book.
The first thing that I noticed was the epistrophe of the word "farewell." Call me crazy, but if I was dying in front of my best friend as was Desdemona, I probably wouldn't want my final words to them to be "See you later." Call me crazy, but I think that people near death may not be completely sane. For all I know, she could have very well thought that nobody did kill her. I hear a lack of oxygen can cause you to forget things.
Dr. Oz agrees with me. http://www.drz.org/asp/conditions/oxygen_deficiency.asp
Anyways. I realize that this post is a complete tangent to the issue at hand, so I will now show you the connection point that I am getting at.
That picture had so many references.
Anyways. What I am getting to is the fact that Othello's whole reason for suicide seemed to be derived (more math references in case Bryan Rainey decides to read my blog) in his realization that Desdemona was innocent. Had he never found out that Desdemona was innocent, then he would have always thought that his murder was qualified.
I assume that this was not the answer that was being looked for, so I will give you what I believe was the text book answer to this question: Had Othello died never knowing that Desdemona was innocent, then the reader would not feel sympathy for his death. He would have died a bloody murderer instead of guilty murderer.
P.S. He is the murderer, not Iago. Iago is just the evil genius.
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